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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-117

  • filing: means to accept, maintain, and preserve all instruments required to be filed. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • recording: means to make an entire literal copy of all instruments required to be recorded. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20

Registration of a mortgage shall be made in the manner following: the mortgage shall be presented to the assistant registrar who shall enter upon the original certificate of title a memorandum of the purport of the mortgage, the time of filing or recording, the document number of the mortgage, and shall sign the memorandum. The assistant registrar shall also note upon the mortgage the time of filing or recording, and a reference to the volume and page of the registration book where it is registered.